[imcarthur]

We go every year for CES & always take groups of similar size. The big question is how much do you want to spend? In most good restaurants with drinks & decent wine, you will top $2K.

Recent fails:

Rosemary’s Restaurant: mixed good & so-so food (yucky sauce on steaks), veggies arrived at end of meal, took ˝ hr for bill
Japonais (Mirage): Great for 2 years running but this year they overcooked ˝ our table’s steaks & weren’t nice about replacing them & sliding us some free wine while the rest of the table waited
Piero’s: A big fail on the food last year
Zefferino (Venetian): Way, way overpriced for so-so food & service
Landry's Seafood House: Avoid it. Trust me.

Recent successes:

Onda (Mirage): Good Northern Italian
Charley Palmers (Mandalay/Four Seasons): The best steaks in Vegas. Atmosphere like a private club with lots of room between tables. Not cheap but worth it.
Binions Steak House: Old school steak house downtown. Always good. Tired environment though.
Circo (Bellagio): Good Northern Italian. Not cheap.
Le Circe (Bellagio): Expensive French. Go with the tasting menu. A quiet place.
Circus Circus Steakhouse: Decent slabs of beef. Old school – almost campy.
Alan Alberts: Steaks. Reliable & old school. Here you could make noise without guilt. A Vegas standard.
Panevino: Italian. I haven't been but several people raved about it after the show.

Ian